Re: [xri] What is this XRD is for?

[Breno de Medeiros <breno@google.com>]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 15:24, Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu> wrote:
> Breno de Medeiros wrote on 2010-02-04:
>> If a <Subject> is present, then I think we should specify what it means.
>> <Alias> should be interpreted as 'metadata also for X' where, where 'X'
>> is inferred from the Alias using the same rules for the <Subject>.
>>
>> My thoughts currently are that the resource is the equivalence class
>> of URIs in a scheme-dependent way. My thinking is that these URIs are
>> alternative representations of the same resource, and XRDs are
>> meta-data about resources, not about a URI string.
>>
>> E.g.: http://EXAMPLE.com http://example.com/ http://example.com:/
>> http://example.com:80/ are alternatives for http://example.com.
>
> Without getting into the usual resource/representation mess, is this more or
> less just what we agreed to on the call last week? That normalization of
> Subject/Alias would be scheme-specific per the RFC?
>
> I was just trying to understand if you meant this in contrast to that
> conversation, or...?

Yes. I just wanted to double-check that we closed in agreement and
that's an item for inclusion in the next draft.

>
> -- Scott
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